ChatBar

A little acsii art for demonstration: [oooooooo]o - Buttons, colored the color of a chat type, left click to open editbox of that type, right click for type specific options. Initial letter of the type on or above the button[ ] - Ends of the bar, left click to drag, right click for options

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Button / ChatType Options:
Block (channel) - Toggles filtering of chat channels related to selected button without leaving channel.
Leave (Channel)
Print Channel User List - List prints to the default chat frame. Same as "/list #". (At this time, Blizzard does not support the listing of players from other realms in chat channels. When Blizzard allows this, this addon will support it.)
Hide This Button - Hide the button for that chat type or channel by name.
Reply (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person that whispered you.
Retell (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person you whispered.
Set Binding By Name (Channel) - Select one of the 10 channel bindings to use for this channel (saved by name instead of by index).
Sticky - http://www.wowwiki.com/Chat#Advanced_Chat_Terminology.2FDetails Note: Channels are all or none, other types can be stickied individually.

Bindings
There are now bindings available for the chat types and channels by index. Individual channels can also be set to bind by name, overriding a indexed binding of your choice.

Localizations:
English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
(I only speak English. All other translations have been user submitted. So if you have updates or new translations let me know.)

User Submitted Skins
The skinning system is a bit unique because it has more layers than a normal button with full up/down specularity and shadow as well as flash/hover alpha and normal shaping graphic that are all translucent to allow for the buttons to correspond to the chat type's selected color for each button.

To add a new custom Skin drop its folder into the ChatBar folder, modify the ChatBar_AltArtDirs table in ChatBar.lua and append the new folder name, then add a CHATBAR_SKIN# variable to the end of the localization file for it's readable name. Then select it from the dropdown in game.

Comes with the following skins: Solid, Glass and Squares

Reset
If you lose the bar you can reset it with this script: /run ChatBar_Reset()

v3.2
-Removed 'this' usage
-Buttons are now created on demand for less memory usage
-Fixed to work with latest chat changes
-Added BNet Whisper Button
-Added BNet Conversation Button
-toc to 40000

v3.1 (yarko)
-Added larger buttons option to options menu
-Added channel blocking capability to channel buttons right-click menu
-"/w" is now removed if the user first clicks the whisper button then another button without entering a whisper
-toc to 30300

v3.0
-Added a fix for parsing the first character of a chinese channel (3 chars)
-Fixed battleground chat button not showing up (thanks 狂飙)
-Fixed Show Channel ID on Buttons not working

v2.9
-Fixed a channel bug

v2.8
-Added Chat Type Bindings
-Added Channel Bindings by Number
-Channel Bindings can be overridden to save by name
-Updated a lot of old code
-toc to 30200

v1.2
-VisibilityOptions AutoHide is now smarter and shows whenever ChatBar is sliding or being dragged or the cursor is over its menu
-Fixed Eclipse onload error
-Fixed Whisper abreviation

v1.1
-Addon Channels Hidden added GuildMap
-Text has been made Localizable
-Officer chat shows up if you CanEditOfficerNote()
-Buttons now correctly update when raid, party, and guild changes
-Hide Text now correctly says Show Text
-Fixed button for channel 8 to diplay and tooltip correctly
-Added Reset Position Option
-Added Options to hide the each button by chat type or channel name (hide from button menu, show from main sub menu)
-Added option to use Channel Numbers as text overlay
-Added VisibilityOptions, however autohide is a bit finicky atm.

One thing I noted, as I have my UI scaled down a bit (about half), the W for Whisper appears as "...". Other than that, didn't notice any issues.

Also, might consider adding one more option: Using channel numbers rather than the first letter (for General, Trade, and those -- as some of us have gotten very used to using the numbers rather than the names).

Ya, I sicked a few of the pro coders on it and we had fun coming up with the dynamic acceleration algorithm for the sliding. You can even make it turn around and go the other way if you interupt it. Not that anyone would ever do that...

As for the scaling of the letters, that's odd. I usually play at .8 scale and it looks fine. You would think the text would scale too since it's all anchored to the UIParent. Anyway I think they messed with scale a ton in 1.9 so I'm not gonna bother changing that part unless it doesn't work in 1.9

Sounds good. I have a character on the test server, so I may toddle over there and see what it looks like (though I'm still trying to get my settings there the same as on the live servers; copying my WTF folder didn't seem to cover UI scale and whatnot, sigh).

Another possible suggestion: Adding an option that performs the same ability Persistance of Chattiness does (sticky chat for all channels, including whispers and officer chat) -- your mod seems a natural place to merge that behaviour.

Ran into this recently, when I added another chat channel to my lineup. The channel is a single word, text-only, five letters long, and was assigned (by WoW) to channel 8. The display bar shows "..." instead of the first letter (which is C) and when I mouse-over the button for that channel, I get:

I'm not sure if the problems came from this mod, BUT I have deduced so far that the problem does pop up with ChatBar. My /who list keeps popping up...I close it..it comes back up.I remove alot of my mods and added them back in a few at a time until I came to ChatBar...as soon as I put ChatBar back in..the list will pop up.
I will look at it more from my end....but could you think about looking into it? I will D/L the previous version if I can't get it to stop and if you are not able to reproduce it.....it's one of those little mods that I have gotten used too....TY!

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